Scottish National Dress
Bands: BWBRBKGKGKGBWR · Stripes: DB W DB R DB K G K G K G DB W R DB W DB R DB K G K G K G DB W R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3731
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1994 — Scottish National Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1994 — Scotland's National, Dress (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3731
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2160
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2160
Thread count
DBa/24 W4 DBa4 R4 DBa6 K22 G24 K4 G6 K4 G24 DBa24 W26 R/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| DBa | #1C1C50 #1C1C50 | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Gordon Dress #2 — ΔT 0.24
- Blair Dress — ΔT 0.54
- MacKenzie Dress - 1950 (Clan) — ΔT 0.59
- Gordon, dress 4 — ΔT 0.72
- MacSporran — ΔT 0.76
- Soutar/Souter — ΔT 0.79
- Kinloch Anderson, hunting — ΔT 0.83
- Gordon Dress — ΔT 0.83
- Denovan, The Lairdship of.. — ΔT 0.84
- Gordon Dress (1965) — ΔT 0.86
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /setts/s14/db12w2db2r2db3k11g12k2g3k2g12db12w13r2~x2/